Portuguese presidential elections 2016 - academic resources

Last week

Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, won the Portuguese presidential election with 52% of the vote. 

Here are some resources where you can find out more.

There is an official Portuguese government website

This has detailed results and enables comparison with earlier elections.

The national election commission has background information on the electoral system and legislation in Portuguese.  The national tribunal also has official notices and reports on the legislation

ERC opinion polls of voting intentions.

Electoral Geography has some good visualization of results

 Newspaper coverage from Portugal is offered via these websites

Diário de Notícias

Observador

TVi24

 Academic discussion of Portuguese politics from the Conversation blog

Robert Schuman fondation election analysis

Portugal elections

Portugal also had some snap elections recently. see discussion of how the economic crissi effected the election on the Guardian website.

for further information onn the results see these websites.
The Official Portuguese election commission website has information on regulations, plus results.
The Minister of the Interior also has clear graphs of the results.

Compare the results with voting intention polls on this website maintained by ERC.

Some newspaper coverage and comment can be found in the website created by Jornal de Noticias

Publico
RTP - TV coverage.

More on Portuguese elections

Here are some useful sources of research on Portuguese elections which you might want to explore further.

Direcção-Geral da Administração Interna. This is an official website of the Portuguese government It provides access to Portuguese election results from parliamentary elections, presidential elections, local elections, referendums and European elections in Portugal from approximately 1999 onwards. It is possible to view statistics and tables relating to total results, results by party
ODIHR - OSCE organisation which produces election monitoring reports. These assess the state of democracy and conduct of elections.
Another excellent staerting point for elections research are election studies. These often involve surveys with voters, offering insight into voting behaviours, sources of information and more. GESIS has a catalogue of studies conducted for different nations.
The Portuguese Voting Behavior website has useful information and free access to some papers related to this.

Finally the Portuguese Political Science Association has specialists working on all aspects of politics relating to Portugal.

Portugal - forthcoming presidential election

On the 23rd January Portugal is due to have a presidential election.
Here are some starting points for research.
IFES has the basic facts on the candidates and electoral system
The National Electoral Commission of Portugal has far more detailed information (in Portuguese) about the process and official government documents.
All the canidadates have their own webpages.
Cavaco Silva official website
Manuel Alegre official website
Fernando Nobre official website
Francisco Lopes official website
Defensor Moura official website
José Manuel Coelho official website
Other good starting points for coverage are national newspapers which have stories, analysis and polls.
Some key examples from Portugal are:
Journal de Noticias
Diaria de Noticias
Publico
Portuguese TV station RTP1 (public service) also has information
Finally regulatory authority ERC has information about recent opinion polls